Opinion: Doomed to de Blasio

Americas columnist Mary Anastasia O’Grady on what New Yorkers can expect if they elect the Occupy movement to run the city. Photo: Getty Images

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... I ... I ... I ... worse they are cheating on the polls on Tuesday the what the numeric replace Michael Bloomberg and the overwhelming winner it looks like at least according to polls will be a bill that was CEO of her Anastasia O'Grady to ... your city resident Doug and I have to ... live with the ... consequences of this likelihood ... victory for Mr was here what is it look like for you and that person ... finds it all the city go ... off first while I find it really striking that he's running so far had a pulse I think something like forty five points ... I think every one of those south ... Time Jolo to voters ... is someone I now because I mean any body who ... actually wants to vote for depositing I was the intended sample of New Yorkers the about some pretty hardcore Democrats but people are afraid and it starts with crime a crime was really bad and ... in the eighties the New York and even in the seventies the city started to ... deteriorate ... and I'm a lot of it had to do with a management coming from city are so op ... I think the time over the course of the Cox administration he was a Democrat and then we had on the silly Annie of course in between we didn't think ends ... I and and we have not Michael Bloomberg ... at the city managers have learned the importance of freedom ... maintaining order and and so forth in the city and out ... and apply this seems to want to throw that all went ... well but they certainly it that it's become easy has been something that would take for granted ... this certainly jewel among large cities that is very safe ... livable place despite its size and I'm and that baby of the UC there's a certain fatigue even though that the ... the success of the ... NYPD was twenty years is phenomenal in terms of wanton murder rates in center well some things I think that are making a deposit know opting for example might be happening ... means very expensive to live in your city ... I break now but ... what's ironic is that of a big part of that is rent control ... and a of course the plot CEO would give us more rent control more control and mandates on developers ... and I suspect will make the housing ... problem even worse than it is but I think that people feel of the Audi young people feel ... he's promising them cheap housing they're going to vote for ... that was another interesting aspect of his bio is so years ago his association with the ... Sandinista Nicaragua but the ... YMCA zero as a repeated though that means that a lot of the ... other ideals and ... Cuba's well deserved made efforts to say what he sees is the ... virtues of the regime there ... obviously cover that region very sensibly ... what they do these people what does that tell us about ... the potential ex mayor why would say that he really has a felony understand the importance of freedom that would be economic freedom you know freedom in terms of school choice ... I'm just basically letting people make their own decisions and trusting that those decisions will be best for them to certify the ground up ... I he has much more of a few of the world that you need in on expert planner at the top was can organize things for people ... and aam you know he talks about working in communities and aam ... connector route Last and of course those communities where oftentimes ... of people who were signed to do keep an eye on their neighbors our light goes on in Cuba ... on and the things that he he he still where pizza Cuba has great health care even though everyone knows that the health care into this horrible ... so we see this also be kind of ... a in love with an idea was ... that there has never translated into reality ... and again so ... are ruined lives and works in the city is buzzing of the dose of reality show ... but with such a painful place weren't paying students